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- yellowfish04, on 10/22/2009, -0/+30***** that, I'm 23 and I plan on seeing the next century, maybe one or two after that one as well
- had3l, on 10/22/2009, -0/+20Good luck living 200 years without ever something stupid happening, like slipping and hitting your head in the toilet.
- fartingbob, on 10/22/2009, -1/+20As a heavy smoking, heavy drinking, no exercise kind of guy i apologize to the rest of the UK for bringing down the average.
- yellowfish04, on 10/22/2009, -1/+13heavy farter too, I see?
- gotbannedagain, on 10/22/2009, -1/+10Eh, while I wouldn't want to turn this into a Republican vs. Democrat conversation, I will say this.
Those figures also consider deaths of all kind. The USA happens to be a very violent nation in relation to the rest of the civilized world, but it's not just that either. We have the longest roadways and more cars than any other country. More cars equals more vehicular deaths.
Not trying to play a red herring, just saying that there are more factors to consider that simply healthcare. Life, and in this case Death, just isn't that transparent. - GamerXR72, on 10/22/2009, -0/+9Even if people had no limit to their natural life span, good luck staying alive that long. People die from many more things than just getting old.
- Bentleyk9, on 10/22/2009, -0/+7Japan: 83 (Universal)
Australia: 82 (Universal)
Iceland: 82 (Universal)
Italy: 82 (Universal)
San Marino: 82 (Universal)
Switzerland: 82 (Universal)
Andorra: 81 (Universal)
Canada: 81 (Universal)
France: 81 (Universal)
Israel: 81 (Universal)
Monaco: 81 (Universal)
New Zealand: 81 (Universal)
Norway: 81 (Universal)
Singapore: 81 (Universal)
Spain: 81 (Universal)
Sweden: 81 (Universal)
USA: 78 (Cluster *****)
Health care system type courtesy of:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RB4pRZNeh8E/RrdpyqYtSYI/ ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care - Elranzer, on 10/22/2009, -1/+7Yeah but you'd be old most of your life.
- nullcodes, on 10/22/2009, -1/+6Post natal care is atrocious in most developing countries.
Can we see the life expectancy at age 5 instead of at birth? Usually if a person makes it past 5 yrs they're gonna be OK without any medical care. They will have various chronic ailments though. I mean if we looked at even the US founding fathers ..they may have lived into seniority but they had various chronic *****.
I suspect sierra leone's life expectancy at age 5 will still be ***** though since it's plagued by AIDS. - elhaf, on 10/22/2009, -0/+5you can't bring down the average by much compared with dying infants. The infant mortality rate skews these results by decades. Same with the commonly quoted stat that people over 100 years ago lived to fourty. Newton, for instance, lived to 84.
- rrife, on 10/22/2009, -0/+5I just heard a report on NPR last week that said they expect most people born today to live near or past 100 years old.
- cmotdibbler, on 10/22/2009, -1/+6USA USA USA <hey ... there must be some mistake>
- steelclash84, on 10/22/2009, -0/+5Yea but then he might invent the flux capacitor, and be able to see the future without waiting.
- edsfault3000, on 10/22/2009, -0/+3Buried, I was expecting really long and really short living people.
- RachelJTM, on 10/22/2009, -0/+339 years, that's really sad.
- Residents, on 10/22/2009, -1/+4lol.
- rrife, on 10/22/2009, -1/+3I wonder if you exclude infant mortality, I wonder which country has the highest average life expectancy.
- Apocalyptic0n3, on 10/22/2009, -1/+3Does this include things like being murdered in combat? The article doesn't say, and it would surely decrease the average life expectancy. I mean, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan are perennial war zones.
- Sloi, on 10/22/2009, -0/+2Once we cross the first bridge, people will then see living to 200 as a very real possibility. After that, who knows.
The singularity is near. - vashth3stampede, on 10/22/2009, -0/+1so...im past middle age (23) [in sierra leone]? might as well go have a mid life crisis!
- AtomicTheory, on 10/22/2009, -2/+3Wow, what is so special about babies born on October 22, 2009? Are the planets aligned in a pattern conducive to longevity?
- MacParrot, on 10/22/2009, -0/+1Freetown used to e a really great place. It's a shame that tribal warfare and disease have ravaged a good part of West Africa
- GreatSunJester, on 10/22/2009, -0/+1I wish someone would post that same list cross referenced with each country's average tax rate AND the average estimated federal money waste numbers. I'm not bashing the list, I really do want the numbers.
- Odonthe1st, on 10/22/2009, -1/+2Well, die already!
- ketedford, on 10/22/2009, -2/+2Does this take abortions in to account?
- satrohraj, on 10/22/2009, -0/+0Wheres india then???
- biogears, on 10/22/2009, -1/+1Shell article so the author could use the phrase "The United States lags behind...".
- Caergrim, on 10/22/2009, -1/+1Yeah, it should present information on life expectancy at various ages, such as 5, 20, and 60. This would cover a vast range of ages in which people typically die of common diseases or mishaps. Although I am 23 now, I fully expect to live to 100 or more, barring some unnatural phenomenon.
- askantik, on 10/22/2009, -5/+5I didn't know you could just list WHO data and that was considered journalism... also, I'm upset that the article didn't adequately point out just how badly the US is getting pwned. Not enough people seem to know this.
- acidtonic, on 10/22/2009, -0/+0Well you obviously live longer by not being harassed and arrested for the act that harms no one except yourself and even then very little with moderation.
People are too worried about what everyone else might be doing behind closed doors that somehow just bothers them to no end.
That pissing and moaning lowers the life of the complainer and also the life of the innocent guy getting ridiculed for his personal choice to consume something by himself. - phogasmic, on 10/22/2009, -1/+1In Japan they smoke and drink with impunity. Maybe that has something to do with it.
- Rixar13, on 10/22/2009, -12/+2My best argument for "Health Care Reform"
" The United States lags behind the top nations, with an average life expectancy of 78 for the two sexes combined".
.Republicans want you to 1) Not get Sick
_ 2) Die Quickly if you do.
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